Allegis Global Solutions Limited (AGS) Looking for Low-Latency Java Developer – Investment Banking at London Full Time

Low-Latency Java Developer – Investment Banking

• Contract: 6 months + extension (inside IR35) – Long-term project
• Location: London, UK
• Flexi: Hybrid (1/2 days per week onsite)

Core:

– Banking experience

– Java

– Low Latency/Zero-Garbage

– Fixed Income/Bonds exposure

JOB SCOPE

. The successful candidate will be the part of a team building an innovative platform leveraging data, analytics to drive automated decision-making, smart automation across the full life cycle of the business. This is a rare opportunity for a self-driven, strong and passionate developer to participate and contribute to a paradigm shift. We want People driven by the mission!

. Build services with a framework and generic pattern mindset for scale across multiple dimensions optimized compute/performance, functional, visualization, quality control

. Develop reliable connectivity with numerous bank systems in an agile delivery method

. Design, develop and maintain services and applications that facilitate low touch electronic trading

. Do whatever it takes to maintain stability, availability and performance

. Provide Production L3 support as required

. Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions deep understanding of the problem and context along with ownership are key to be successful in this role

. The successful candidate is expected to be an experienced developer in building critical distributed compute solutions in the Financial Markets/Bonds Low touch/Algorithmic pricing domain. Knowledge of and exposure to credit products would be essential. This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

Core Qualifications

. At least 10 years experience designing, developing mission critical systems in Java as the primary language

. In-depth core Java knowledge, with demonstrable experience of zero-garbage/low latency

. Proven experience in Real Time, scalable systems, garbage collector, queuing, scheduling, complex events processing (CEP)

. Understanding of Financial Markets processes around pricing, booking, golden sources of data etc.

. Technical knowledge in a no-SQL/doc/columnar DB such as mongoDB, kdb, Shell Scripts in Linux/Unix environment and or windows-based environments

. Understanding of what is required to deliver safe and fast electronic trading

. Experience in all or some of these: hazelcast, google guice, solace, gprc

. Understanding and demonstrable experience of modern architecture/designs micro-services/API-first development/high-throughput/event-driven/agent-based system, compositional frameworks

. Knowledge and practical experience in modern dev-ops – CI/CD Build and Static Analysis tools

Delivery

. Ability to think Product/platform with a strong alignment with expected business outcomes/journeys

. Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines

. Ability to scope minimum viable functionalities for quick and iterative/incremental deliveries this is a must for the candidate

. Understanding of software development life cycle and importance of Design-First

. Experienced in Agile/Scrum-Kanban and related tools

. Knowledge of bonds electronic markets is a strong plus

Other desirable skills/knowledge:

. Some very basic knowledge of UI concepts JavaScript/html5/openfin/react

. Experience of connecting to external trading platforms

Soft skills:

. Outstanding problem-solving skills

. Proactive, self-starter, autonomous Self-motivated, multi-tasking, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, solution oriented with proven results

. Good team spirit

. Extreme curiousness

Thank you for considering us!